The Public Storyteller : mixed media synchronized dual film installation
The Public Storyteller is an artwork produced in 16mm film and video. It brings back to Morocco the epic of Djellali Kamal - an anonymous North African undocumented worker in France - and his candidacy to 1974 French presidential election. The work stages a halqa, a centuries-old practice of public storytelling in Morocco, to people arranged in a circle. In this halqa, Djellali’s campaign is narra